In everyday life we try very hard not to take risks so large, not to board airplanes, say, with 1 chance in 40 of crashing. We will agree to surgery in which 95 percent of patients survive only if our disease has a greater than 5 percent chance of killing us.
 Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (1994). copy citation

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Author Carl Sagan
Source Pale Blue Dot
Topic risk airplane
Date 1994
Language English
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